Tag: abrahamic faiths

Every year Ramadan and Eid returns, so does the suffering of the people of Palestine return. The people of Gaza have been amidst famine throughout the holiest month of Ramadan. Meanwhile I and many fellow Muslims around the globe will be celebrating the end of Ramadan with gifts, families, friends and feasts.

Why do we see that the deaths of Ukrainians are more painful, more felt, than the deaths of Palestinians? We should feel for both as both are equally human beings made of flesh and blood.

Amid all this chaos, misery and death in the current war in the Middle East, we forget that we are all believers and followers of the Abrahamic faith, worshipping the same one God.

Even though I appreciate how the Israelis have “made the desert bloom,” it has come at a great price for the local Palestinians.

Having assumed that truth and beauty lay in fullness I clearly needed a lesson in the value of negative spaces.

I start my column with the headlines from the past three years about the clashes between the Israeli forces and the Palestinians at the holy mosque of Masjid Al-Aqsa during the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims. 

During Hajj, Prophet Abraham/Ibrāhīm is a symbol of shared origins and unification in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam